In an interview with America, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego says: In recent years, major figures and programs within EWTN have reflected with ever greater prominence a systematic oppositional tone to many of the major priorities of this pontificate, often accompanied with caricature and scorn. The continual attention to the worldview of Archbishop [Carlos… Read More Bishop McElroy on the Disunity and Distortions Coming from EWTN

via the NY Times: The world has gained a new weapon in the war on malaria, among the oldest known and deadliest of infectious diseases: the first vaccine shown to help prevent the disease. By one estimate, it will save tens of thousands of children each year. Malaria kills about half a million people each… Read More First Malaria Vaccine Approved by WHO

Pope Francis, via the Vatican: Without freedom, there can be no true humanity, for human beings were created free in order to be free. The tragic chapters of your country’s history provide a great lesson: whenever freedom was attacked, violated and suppressed, humanity was disfigured and the tempests of violence, coercion and the elimination of… Read More Freedom Demands Personal Responsibility

In Slovakia, Pope Francis recently said: In the Church, no one ought ever to feel out of place or set aside. This is not just a truism; it is the reality of the Church, in which we live as a people called by God, each with his or her special role to play, all as… Read More Pope Francis: We Are Called to Live As One Universal Family

In Slovakia, Pope Francis recently said: The bread spoken of in the Gospel is always bread that is broken. This sends a powerful message for our life as a community: it reminds us that true wealth does not consist simply in multiplying the things we have, but in sharing them fairly with those around us.… Read More Young People Need the Flavor of Solidarity, Not Bland Consumerism

via the Vatican: In the face of cultural, ethnic, political and religious diversity, we can either retreat into a rigid defense of our supposed identity, or become open to encountering others and cultivating together the dream of a fraternal society…. If we put the Gospel at the centre and bear witness to it with fraternal… Read More Pope Francis: Remember God’s Style of Closeness, Compassion, and Tender Love